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Further proof of what cowards these people are. Doing this from an airplane.

No doubt whatsoever that this is not about Sandusky, Penn State, or the victims - this entire media-driven circus has simply become an opportunity for any person who ever had a grudge against Joe Paterno or any nut who wants attention or any pervert who wants to focus everyone on Paterno and away from Sandusky - this has evolved into an opportunity for these sadists to just take shots at a dead man and his widow and family primarily for their own enjoyment. Mob mentaility...and it's being fueled irresponsibly by the media - for money no less. Never doubt that - it's all about the dollar.

So in all of this hype, we are to assume that, had Paterno "acted Sandusky would have not had any more victims."
Fact: No one, not even Paterno, could stop Sandusky from being a pedophile.
Fact: Paterno had no power to put Sandusky in prison, which others did and they failed to do so.
Fact: Sandusky would have continued to prey on young people as long as he was free to do so, with or without access to PSU's facilities.

These are facts. Short of shooting Sandusky, Paterno could have done very little to actually stop him from abusing young men. Law enforcement officials who failed to prosecute Sandusky in 1998 failed the victims and the system they were paid and sworn to uphold.

End of story. Everything else, especially hindsight about what Joe Paterno did or didn't do, is speculation and ultimately results in the same outcome - Sandusky free to abuse.

In 1998, the Penn State campus police and local law enforcement authorities investigated an allegation that Jerry Sandusky, then a prominent coach with the university’s football team, had engaged in inappropriate and perhaps sexual conduct with a boy in the football facility’s showers.
A lengthy police report was generated, state prosecutors said. The boy was interviewed. A second potential victim was identified. Child welfare authorities were brought in. Sandusky confessed to showering with one or both of the children. The local district attorney was given material to consider prosecution.
In the end, no prosecution was undertaken. The child welfare agency did not take action. And, according to prosecutors, the commander of the university’s campus police force told his detective, Ronald Schreffler, to close the case.
“Sandusky admitted showering naked with Victim 6, admitted to hugging Victim 6 while in the shower and admitted that it was wrong,” said the report issued last weekend by the Pennsylvania attorney general. “Detective Schreffler advised Sandusky not to shower with any child again and Sandusky said that he would not.”
Questions about that investigation abound: Who was interviewed? Who received the report? If the case was shut down, was Sandusky sanctioned in some way?
The New York Times has reached three of the principals involved in the investigation: the two men identified by prosecutors as the police officers who worked on the case, Schreffler and Ralph Ralston, and the investigator with the state welfare department, Gerald Lauro, who was charged with determining if a child had been harmed.
Schreffler — who appears to have been the lead detective, and who interviewed Sandusky — refused to comment when reached at his home in Bellefonte, Pa. He has retired from the campus police force and works at least part time for a security firm in Baltimore, according to his former wife.
“I’ve got nothing to say,” Schreffler said Tuesday night.
Schreffler’s current wife, Laurel, reached Wednesday, said, “I’m sorry, I’m not allowed to talk.”
In an interview this week, Ralston, who said he worked for the local State College police force, insisted he played only a peripheral role in the investigation. He said his role was merely to make sure that campus police had access to the boy, who Ralston said lived in his jurisdiction.
“I can’t even remember anything about it,” Ralston said.
He said he never followed up with campus police or child welfare authorities to find out the conclusion of their investigations.
“I didn’t think any more of it until I read the report over the weekend,” he said of the attorney general’s charges against Sandusky and other university officials. “There was stuff in there I never heard before.”
Lauro, the investigator for the state welfare department in 1998, said he was aware during the investigation that Sandusky was a prominent local figure, but that it did not affect his work.
“Was he a high-profile person?” Lauro asked. “I’d have to be stupid to tell you no. Everybody knew him.”
At the time of his investigation, Lauro said, all the child said was that Sandusky showered with him, and it made him uncomfortable. Lauro said he didn’t feel that was enough to substantiate a sexual-abuse complaint.
Lauro suggested that the child, now grown, had told the grand jury convened by the attorney general a much more explicit account.
Lauro said he has felt worse and worse as the scandal has unfolded, particularly when he read quotations in a newspaper from a victim’s mother blaming him and other officials for not doing more to stop Sandusky.
“I feel bad that there was not more information so I could have done something,” he said. “I feel bad that the mom thinks I should’ve done more. I just didn’t have all the information back then.”
In 1998, though, Lauro said his judgment was that the allegation fell under the category of what he termed “boundary issues,” not sexual assault.
“It was definitely boundary issues, and I worked with boundary issues a lot,” Lauro said. “But if I believed it was more than boundary issues, I would’ve gone to the mat.”
Lauro said he met Schreffler, the campus detective, twice during the investigation. Lauro said he was surprised to learn that the detective would not talk about the investigation of 1998.
“Wow,” he said. “That’s really saying something.”

Here's your cover-up. It has nothing to do with Paterno. Any one who can't see that won't see it.
I wish the Paterno family well and encourage them and their legal team to seek damages from every media outlet, "investigative team," and individual who continues to libel Paterno's name.

And maybe, just maybe, somebody out there will be able to answer these questions instead of just hiding in Paterno's shadow.

Freeh did what he was paid to do. That's what he does. Anyone who knows Freeh and is familiar with his resume knows the score.

Freeh was paid to lay this on the shoulders of the four scapegoats. The hope is that it sticks and it stops here.

Freeh knows as do others including me, that the real questions that need to be answered is why Sandusky got a free pass from Gricar. Gricar is the link to the real players and you know where that goes...

It won't stick because the numbers are just too great. CNN's desparation to draw viewers is a sign of the times. The Internet Media has all but killed the talking heads and their are people who are smart enough to see through duplicity built on backroom handshakes and money-filled envelopes.

There was a cover-up, but it involved the real major players not these four goats. I'm unrealistically optimistic that some grass root journalists will dig at the shaky foundation in the right spots to bring this entire thing crashing down.

Dig at the BOT, dig at Sandusky, dig at Gricar, dig at the state power structure. But dig with one hand and keep a sharp stick in the other because this is dangerous ground.

The fact that certain emails were "leaked" to CNN and other news outlets makes this absolutely clear that a major cover-up going to the top echelons of government in Pennsylvania and to powerful people in this state and possibly other places is in full effect. It is abundantly clear that certain individuals, alive and dead, have been selected as scapegoats and that in some cases people in the media have chosen to be a part of this process of focusing attention on these individuals in order to allow the more powerful, wealthy, and influential people who would suffer from exposure to be protected.
From the start I couldn't understand why Sandusky seemed to show little, if no concern for his crimes. I now believe that is partly because he has guaranteed protection from unseen sources who were probably implicit in his crimes. He will appeal and eventually serve little if no time.
Find Gricar and you'll find the answers. If he was alive and under protection, he's probably dead now as he has become a liability.
There is no other logical conclusion to draw from the absolute insane and illogical focus on Paterno who was nothing more than a bit player in this fiasco. His image and the resultant focus on him has afforded protection to many as yet undiscovered parties who participated in this travesty.
With the type of media we have today, we'll probably never know the real truth.
Where are Woodward and Bernstien when you need them?

I don't know maybe it's just me but, if the guy was arrested and cited, didn't he at some point tell the arresting officer what motivated him to harass the people in the other vehicle and, I don't know, wouldn't that just maybe have been, possibly, a nice little ending to this newsworthy event?

Really. But then again, I forget myself. In today's society no one really needs a reason to act like a posterior cavity. It just comes naturally. This guy just felt like trashing some patrons at a McDonald's drive-through, and hey, why not?

Oh, and jury members should also be subject to liability and criminal prosecution/civil damages.

As in the John Edwards "mistrial," judge, prosecutors, defense, and jury should all be subject to criminal/civil penalties for allowing that miscreant to walk away. There isn't a right-minded individual in the country who doesn't believe that power and privilege pave the way for injustice.

People found guilty in a court of law and sentenced to die should be publicly executed within 72 hours of their conviction.

Judges and prosecutors should be tried and found guilty of malpractice when criminals are released on the street and commit additional crimes. At the least they should be disbarred for incompetence and liable for civil damages from victims and their families.

Defense attorneys who successfully defend criminals who then commit additional crimes when released should be tried as accessories to the crimes committed, disbarred, and held liable for civil damages.

I sat for a while tonight and looked at the innocent face of that baby juxtaposed against the face of the animal that beat him to death. What Hell he must have experienced beating after beating. He must have cried hoping his mother or anyone would rescue him...to no avail. Read the full story at the York Dispatch. How he was left alone with his sister and how this animal returned home to find him covered in his own filth and by his own admission this animal "grabbed him by the ear and sent him up to his room to get cleaned up." Where was Mom? Out with another man. Left this animal to watch her kids. Defense attorney claims the child was never beaten. The child had internal injuries and bruises all over his body. He "fell in the tub."

The price we will all pay and are paying for letting this happen. For letting animals walk away after killing kids. For allowing attornies to blatantly lie and defend murderers.

The blood of the innocents cries out from the ground and we are all accountable because we don't demand justice.

The "justice" system continues to release convicted felons back onto our streets. It has failed us.

The primary purpose of government by the people is to afford protection for the people - not to create more regulations restricting law-abiding citizens' rights or invasions into our privacy.
Failing to protect its citizenry by showing mercy to rapists, murderers, kidnappers and their ilk (mercy and forgiveness is the business of their victims), is tantamount to being an accessory to the crime.

Give us back our tax dollars. We'll protect ourselves.
Those who fail to judge rightly will be judged harshly when the ultimate judge drops the gavel.

Every man, woman and child in this country owes more than $50,000 nationally and it increases at an alarming rate with no end in sight, yet no one really seems to care.

The state is staring down a huge deficit. Pensions are going to be raided, schools will be closed, and the state unemployment rate is going to jump with massive layoffs of instructional staff at all levels. This is going to happen and is happening afcross the nation.

This story...really. The nation is in terminal debt, we are facing another global recession, and people keep tuning into Dancing with the Stars because, really, we're finished.

A man eating another man's face off. Children being raped, tortured and murdered. In America where you can have it all and then some. And no one can read the writing on the wall...

Blame it on a political party, a person, an ideology. Whatever. There is no political solution. We are long past any of that. It's over. Time to reap what we've sown. Those who have ears to hear and eyes to see know...

As a newly hired worker for the state I say, fine. I'm no delusional idiot. I know that in ten, twenty years max there will be no pension. So stop taking money out of my paycheck. Let me keep it and I'll fund my own retirement. There will be no social security for me either so stop taking that out feds. In fact, just pay me and I'll decide how I want to spend my money. I can just retire in a tent on a beach somewhere. How's that sound Jake?

As much as I don't want to have to read the details I encourage the paper to follow through until the end. It's people like this who end up back on the street and perpetrate even more heinous crimes. The media has an obligation to inform the public for it's own safety and to hold criminals, prosecutors, and public defenders accountable. This is far from being funny. The next victim may not be an animal. I will be following this story to see if a picture is posted and if the PN follows through to report the consequences of the actions.
This is the society we live in people. Wake up and demand our public officials put criminals away or bury your head in the sand and stop reading the news.